High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12
Early College High, Costa Mesa, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 177
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.1
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 2.8 lower than the district figure of 18.9. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 2990 Mesa Verde Dr., Costa Mesa, CA 92626
- Phone
- (714)424-7990
- District
- Newport-Mesa Unified
- County
- Orange County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 062724011702
School meals
- Free lunch
- 90
- Reduced-price lunch
- 25
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 11565.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 60Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Newport-Mesa Unified
- Corona del Mar High 2,106 students
- Newport Harbor High 2,084 students
- Costa Mesa High 1,730 students
- Estancia High 976 students
- Back Bay High 143 students
- Monte Vista Independent Study 48 students
High schools elsewhere in Costa Mesa
- Central Orange County CTE Partnership (CTEp) Central Orange County CTE Partnership (CTEp)
- Coastline ROP Coastline ROP
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.